When a lack of data inhibits decision making, large scale what-if queries can be conducted over the uncertain parameter ranges. Such what-if queries can generate an overwhelming a...
The INEX query languages allow the extraction of fragments from selected documents. This power is not much used in INEX queries. The paper suggests reasons why, and considers which...
We investigate the subtle cues to user identity that may be exploited in attacks on the privacy of users in web search query logs. We study the application of simple classifiers ...
Traditionally hypertexts have been limited in size by the manual effort required to create hypertext links. In addition, large hyper–linked collections may overwhelm users with ...
Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...